Silenus holding the Infant Bacchus
Italian School
Category
Art / Sculpture
Date
1800 - 1899
Materials
Bronze
Measurements
630 mm high
Place of origin
Italy
Order this imageCollection
Felbrigg, Norfolk
NT 1399469
Summary
Bronze sculpture, Silenus holding the Infant Bacchus, Italian School, 19th century. Bronze figure of Silenus holding the infant Bacchus in his arms. Bronze reduction of classical original. The original Roman copy after early Hellenistic was found in Rome in the 16th century in the Gardens of Sallust near the Quirinal. Its ownership changed a number of times between 1569 when it is first recorded, and in 1807 Napoleon acquired it for France. Companion to FEL/M/7.
Provenance
Part of the Windham Collection. The hall and contents were bequeathed to the National Trust in 1969 by Robert Wyndham Ketton-Cremer (1906-1969)
Makers and roles
Italian School, sculptor
References
Haskell and Penny 1981: Francis Haskell and Nicholas Penny, Taste and the Antique, The Lure of Classical Sculpture 1500 - 1900, New Haven and London, 1981, 77